I love it!!

Im huge fan of strategy games. this was my first intoduction into a paradox game. I was always timid to jump into their games because of their shear size, scale & micromanagement (unlike sega total war series for example); but despite the 20hr + learning curve i absolutley love this game. After 400 game hours im still learning new tricks and it hasnt gotten old yet! to say it has tons of replayabilty is an understatement (and thats without the DLC)! this is probably the most "bang for my buck" ive ever gotten from any game. This game isnt perfect & it does have its flaws. As game time passes and conflicts escalate into a full blown world war involving the AI of every nation ive had minor performance issues (i have 2014 MacBook Pro). normally that would bother me, but with this game i make an exception.

It's okay, not great

I grew up playing the original which i loved. this version was cool in the sense that it added improved graphics & naval battles, but i unfortunatly i never got it to run seemlessly on my 2014 MacBook w/o compromising quality (despite the fact that i met all the min requirements and then some!). Even then it was still sketchy. Needless to say, it was very frustrating to have to set all the graphics quality to low-med. On top of that it takes up over 40GB of space. If you got a strong top of the line computer, go for it, but it you have an average MacBook like myself stick with the original.